Hollin's love life

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Achim von Arnim
(1781–1831)

Hollin's Liebeleben is Achim von Arnim's first novel , published anonymously by Heinrich Dieterich in Göttingen in 1802. Arnim, who had finished his scientific studies in Göttingen in the summer of 1801, wrote the romantic development novel in the following holiday weeks on the grandparents' estate in Zernikow .

Hollin's love for Maria fails due to social convention.

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In the exuberance of emotions, Hollin writes fifteen - sometimes very long - letters, mostly to his friend Odoardo. Some of the documents from Hollin's pen are not addressed to Odoardo, but are enclosed from Hollin's writing bag. Odoardo replies five times and also addresses the reader at the beginning. Before that, Arnim gives his name for the publication of the letters. Finally, a certain Frank adds some explanations for the editor. In retrospect, the motley mess of the letters is thus arranged a bit and, above all, more transparent. The text is rounded off by a supplement, again made from Odoardo's papers. It reminds of Horace Benedict von Saussure .

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At his place of study N. Hollin entered a secret-public connection . Despite the prohibition, you fight during the weapons exercises. Lenardo is hit. Hollin takes care of the wounded friend. When Lenardo announced the visit of his sister Maria and assumed that Hollin would “harmonize” with her, the calm of the letter writer Hollin was over. He then hears Maria's sweet voice and defends himself against the new feeling. For a change, Hollin goes on a trip to the Harz Mountains and comes from bad to worse. In Goslar , where the Lenardo family stayed, he slept with Maria under one roof and was astonished to notice “the wonderful drift of blood near the beloved”. Together with the Lenardo family, Hollin sets out on a journey through the Harz Mountains. The mother is grateful to him for taking care of her son. Hollin sinks down in front of Maria on the Brocken . In the face of the dawn, Maria sings from Haydn's creation on the mountain . The girl gives him his Magelone -Exemplar. From Blankenburg , the couple then go on a trip to see the bustard . The family, exhausted, remains in Q. in the meantime. The couple climbs from the rock to the booth . In the midst of "all the wonders of nature" the "eternal covenant" is made. Hollin impregnates Maria. After the excursion, the Lenardos stay with relatives. The couple is separated for a long time. Hollin wants to marry Maria, his first love. So he says goodbye to the university and wants to arrange for his promotion in the capital B. - even further away from Maria. In the Harz Mountains, Maria's father was strict and cold. Hollin had not dared to advertise Marie during this trip or later. Even correspondence between the secret couple had never been possible.

Hollin befriends one woman after another in the big city. The first is Countess Irene, a young widow. Sometimes she kisses her three children so much that they scream. Hollin's antidote, the otherwise tried and trusted friendship, does not help against the Countess' “most violent love”. With the next woman, that is the actress Hermine, Hollin is almost unfaithful to his distant Maria. The path to Mrs. Poleni, a political writer and her youngest daughter Bettine, finally continues from Maria. However, Hollin still loves Maria.

Maria's niece Beate, who now also lives in B., has secretly loved Hollin for a long time. Hollin had rejected Beate once. The jealous woman does not forgive this and on occasion reports to the pregnant Maria about Irene, Hermine and the Polenis. Hollin learns from Odoardo that Maria's father had promised his lover to the son of a university friend. Hollin, however, appears before Maria with good news. The minister wants to employ him as a mountain ridge. Mary rejects the unfaithful, the treacherous wooer. Hollin thinks about it and says that Maria could only have found out about him and Irene, Hermine and Bettine from Odoardo.

A little later, Odoardo can credibly assure Maria that Hollin still loves her. Speechless, Maria sinks into Odoardo's arms. Hollin, who joins them, sees a "sinful hug". He does not look for a clarifying conversation, but goes mad. "With a ruined look" he strokes through churches. He had been ill and tired of life for a long time. Hollin is killing himself. As he dies, he forgives Maria and Odoardo - a misunderstanding, because there is nothing to forgive. Maria dies with her child in the premature birth. Odoardo retires to a monastery.

Quotes

  • "Everything works in love."
  • "One must know death in order to live, and be an enemy for friendship."

Testimonials

  • Letter dated September 24, 1801 to Stephan August Winkelmann : "My poetic things are a novel and with a tendency."
  • "I used talent on the novel."
  • Letter of November 18, 1802 to Brentano : "I read to my Hollin to some good-natured country maids who cried and I believed that I had succeeded in everything."

reception

  • In 1803, the reviewer in the magazine “Neue Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek” (Berlin) describes the debut as “a work of art” and “Hollin's Jammerleben”.
  • Werner Vordtriede dismisses the little novel as a " valuable work".
  • Paul Michael Lützeler does not recognize any moral message.
  • Michael Andermatt examines the text in detail. For example, Hollin's initial “ingenious enthusiasm” is highlighted and contrasted with the finally sober letters from the capital B. Or also: The enclosed Saussure memories are an alternative to Hollin's failure.
  • Lützeler points to further leading works: Helmut Fuhrmann (diss. 1956 Cologne), Jane Francis Pulis (diss. 1968 Harvard ), Heinz Härtl (1969), Gerhard Möllers (diss. 1971 Hannover) and Lawrence O. Frye ( mesmerism ).

literature

Quoted text edition

  • Achim von Arnim: Hollin's love life. Novel . P. 9–99 in Paul Michael Lützeler (Ed.): Achim von Arnim. Hollin's love life. Countess Dolores . Vol. 1 in: Roswitha Burwick (Ed.), Jürgen Knaack (Ed.), Paul Michael Lützeler (Ed.), Renate Moering (Ed.), Ulfert Ricklefs (Ed.), Hermann F. Weiss (Ed.): Achim von Arnim. Works in six volumes. 825 pages. Deutscher Klassiker Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1989 (1st edition), ISBN 3-618-60010-0

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Individual evidence

Source means the quoted text edition

  1. ↑ Lützeler in the source, p. 703 above
  2. ↑ Riley, p. 25, 10th Zvu
  3. ↑ Schulz, p. 381, 7. Zvo
  4. ↑ Lützeler in the source, p. 706 above
  5. ↑ According to Lützeler, Frank could have been an acquaintance of the correspondence partner (source, p. 713, 14. Zvu). Arnim accepted Hollin - greatly abbreviated - into Countess Dolores . Before and after the Hollin chapter there is talk of a preacher Frank (source, pp. 188–233).
  6. ↑ For the Romantics, the acceptable form would not have been a relevant criterion for literary quality (Riley, p. 28, 16. Zvo).
  7. ↑ Source, p. 49, 32. Zvo
  8. ↑ Source, p. 64, 27. Zvo
  9. ↑ Quoted in Riley, p. 25, 1. Zvu
  10. ^ Arnim, quoted in Riley, p. 28, 10. Zvo
  11. ↑ Quoted in Lützeler in the source, p. 709, 4th Zvo
  12. ↑ Vol. 82, p. 362 (quoted by Lützeler in the source, p. 709/710)
  13. ^ Vordtriede, p. 318, 22. Zvo
  14. ^ Lützeler in der Quelle, p. 716 center
  15. ↑ Andermatt, pp. 164, 171, 233, 273, 295, 404, 471, 497, 519
  16. ↑ Andermatt, pp. 471–473
  17. ↑ Andermatt, p. 499 middle
  18. ^ Lützeler in the source, p. 711